Overexploiting marine ecosystem engineers: potential consequences for biodiversity

By F. Coleman, Susan L. Williams. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. Clive G. Jones
2. J. Wright
3. J. Crooks
4. Jack J. Middelburg
5. C. Smith
6. J. E. Byers
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8. J. Castilla

In Global and Planetary Change

1. T. Piersma
2. J. Wright
3. Julie Bremner
4. Clive G. Jones
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6. J. Crooks
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8. L. Levin

In Oceanography

1. C. Smith
2. T. Piersma
3. Jack J. Middelburg
4. L. Levin
5. Julie Bremner
6. J. Crooks
7. J. Wright
8. Clive G. Jones

Citations in the corpus

• Hermit crab biocoenoses: a worldwide review of the diversity and natural history of hermit crab associates (2004, background): “Ecosystem engineering is a broad, general concept for habitat modification and/or creation by organisms (Jones et al., 1994, 1997; Thomas et al., 1998; Coleman and Williams, 2002; Wilby, 2002; Gutiérrez et al., 2003; Berkenbusch and Rowden, 2003) and while hermit crabs are not engineers on the same ”
• Bioengineer effects on understory species richness, diversity, and composition change along an environmental stress gradient: Experimental and mensurative evidence (2013, background): “The loss of bioengineers is a concern because these organisms often have wide-ranging and cascading effects (Coleman and Williams, 2002).”
• The Gray Zone: Relationships between habitat loss and marine diversity and their applications in conservation (2008, background): “that the evidence of the dramatic loss of complex marine habitats has been brought to attention (Short andWyllie-Echeverria, 1996; Jackson et al., 2001; Coleman and Williams, 2002; Thrush and Dayton, 2002; Lotze et al., 2006; Airoldi and Beck, 2007).”
• Dredging for edible cockles (Cerastoderma edule) on intertidal flats: short-term consequences of fisher patch-choice decisions for target and non-target benthic fauna (2007, background): “Large-scale industrial fishing such as trawling or dredging for demersal marine fauna is increasingly seen as a threat to the world’s marine biota (Roberts, 1997; Watling and Norse, 1998; Jackson, 2001; Coleman and Williams, 2002; Dayton, 2003; Rosenberg, 2003; Blundell, 2004).”
• GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006, background): “Their depletion by human activities, be it directly or through trophic cascades, can have tremendous effects on biodiversity at the community level (148).”
• Methods for describing ecological functioning of marine benthic assemblages using biological traits analysis (BTA) (2006, background): “bance (see, for example, Snelgrove et al., 1997; Jennings and Kaiser, 1998; Bolam et al., 2002; Coleman and Williams, 2002; Thrush and Dayton, 2002).”
• Marine ecosystem engineering by the alien ascidian Pyura praeputialis on a mid-intertidal rocky shore (2004, background): “…the observed increase in vascular plant diversity, in engineered habitats, to the increase in beaver disturbance regime, through the elimination of competitively dominant plants (see Hacker & Gaines 1997 for positive interactions in plant communities; Coleman & Williams 2002 for marine systems).”
• Ecosystem engineering in space and time. (2007, background): “2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS The loss of ecosystem engineers from systems represents a major conservation concern, as the alteration of the abiotic realm by engineers often has wide ranging, cascading consequences for other biota (Coleman & Williams 2002).”
• The ecological role of Holothuria scabra (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) within subtropical seagrass beds (2009, background): “Those potential broader ecological consequences when over-fishing marine species are of increasing importance to management under policy that requires sustainable fishing practices (Coleman & Williams, 2002).”
• RECOVERY AND GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE INTERTIDAL KELP LESSONIA NIGRESCENS (PHAEOPHYCEAE) 20 YEARS AFTER EL NIÑO 1982/831 (2003, background): “…novelty of these changes makes it difficult for the scientific com- munity to make accurate predictions for the whole system but the recovery of some key ecosystem engineer or habitat-forming species (Jones et al. 1994, Coleman and Williams 2002) may help to understand the magnitude of the impact.”
• Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: their associated invertebrate biodiversity under contrasting wave exposures (2014, background): “The loss of ecosystem engineers due to anthropogenic impacts is of concern because of the negative cascading effects on the species that such organisms support (Coleman and Williams 2002), which is particularly true in the case of intertidal mussel beds (Harley 2011).”
• Current patterns, habitat discontinuities and population genetic structure: the case of the kelp Laminaria digitata in the English Channel (2003, background): “Kelps are not only important ecosystem engineers (Kain 1979, Coleman & Williams 2002), but they are also a main marine commercial resource for various (e.g. food, cosmetic and paint) industries as a source of gel-forming polysaccharides, known as alginates.”
• Assessing functional diversity in marine benthic ecosystems: a comparison of approaches (2003, background): “It is based on sound ecological theory (Townsend & Hildrew 1994) and there are strong links between functional traits and ecosystem processes (Diaz & Cabido 2001, Coleman & Williams 2002).”